Gardez Moi
The opening accord of Gardez Moi is startling: black pepper and tomato leaf create an intensely green-peppery-vegetal impression that reads almost like a crushed stem held close.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 19 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Aromatic50
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Tomato Leaf
- Gardenia
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening accord of Gardez Moi is startling: black pepper and tomato leaf create an intensely green-peppery-vegetal impression that reads almost like a crushed stem held close. It is an unusual departure for a fragrance built around gardenia, and the contrast is entirely deliberate — Jovoy's signature for making florals earn their presence by arriving against resistance. The heart opens into gardenia's tropical creaminess supported by jasmine and ylang-ylang, the vegetal quality of the top now transformed into floral lushness. Raspberry in the base is unexpected: fruity sweetness against oakmoss's earthy gravity and styrax's balsamic resin, with Virginia cedar adding dry structure. A fragrance with a narrative — austere, then lush, then sweet and earthy.
Scent twins
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.
